Bitcoin is a decentralised digital currency which has been growing rapidly in popularity and use. You can send bitcoins to people and businesses around the world quickly, easily, and
with significantly less fees than international wire transfers, PayPal, or credit cards. You can even buy beer almost instantly; Here is a photo of me buying beer using Bitcoin.

If you’re developing a Bitcoin application, or even want to just play around with it, you can do so without costing anything and use a minimal amount of system resources. This blog post covers some technical topics about the Bitcoin block chain, which you might want to read up on the subject beforehand.

One thing that is slightly rage-inducing when using docker is having to SSH into a container. Generally if you have multiple containers that run sshd, you’ll want the SSH ports to be generated randomly to prevent conflicts. Connecting via SSH is slightly tedious to do in this case, as there are several steps involved.

Very early this cold morning I had a sudden urge to improve and customise my shell. A few weeks ago I discovered fish shell but didn’t get around to using it much, so maybe my subconscious decided to wake me up so I can get it done. You win again, brain.